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Strypey | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
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Eg US anti-immigrant laws aren't   there to keep immigrants out. If they did that, the economies of the southern states would lose a steady supply of workers willing to do exploitative service jobs. The real purpose of anti-immigrant laws is to stop them becoming legal workers, protected by US law, and free to organise for better pay and conditions.

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Strypey | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
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Putting aside basic compassion for fellow humans, this is why even the most conservative white, working-class people should oppose anti-immigrant laws. Such laws help bosses keep *their* pay and conditions down too. Because they can always threaten to give the job to an immigrant and pay them less than the legal minimum.

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